Living with an Agoraphobic WoW Addict

This is my diary, a record of what it's like living with a partner who has
Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia and how it's affecting us.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Cleaning the shower can be a big job!

Yes, today I finally did some more work in the bathroom! We have this horrible shower with a sliding door that's in 3 panels and try as I might I've been unable to clean them properly. So today I pulled off the 2 panels that aren't attached and cleaned the lot. It looks much better, but putting it back together proved difficult and I had to get DP to help me. I spent about an hour in there, maybe longer, I've no idea. I poured bleach in the bottom of the shower first, and then used some mould remover. There is still a blackness to the base of the shower though. I even used some toilet cleaner on it, and a "magic eraser"... nothing helped. I washed the 2 panels in the bath, spraying them with mould remover and using a toothbrush for the worst of it. Now to try to keep the shower clean! I think the problem area of the panels might be helped by spraying and rinsing regularly... I'm sure cleaning is why there are now those shower doors that are a single glass panel that swings! It would be much easier.

I did the bathroom this afternoon. This morning we ended up going grocery shopping and as usual spent far too much money. $300 on food and we're going away in a week! Admittedly we did get some snacks for the trip, it's an 8 hour drive and with stops for the kids it took about 12 hours last time we went. I also couldn't go past 1/2 price laundry powder LOL I guess we should be right for this week then not have to worry too much about food when we return... I can hope anyway.

DP has spent the time at home on the computer. He's playing WoW atm but was reading comics at lunch time. He did the dishes yesterday so today there aren't many, which is a nice change but I wish he'd get that doing them every day is easier than thinking "I'll wait until there are more". I took the kids to the pool yesterday morning and came back to a tidy kitchen, it was pretty nice. He spent the rest of the day on the computer though, and then went to bed at about 7pm because he's been getting blood noses recently. He was only going "for a bit of a lie-down" but was still there when I went to bed at 11pm. DD2 was still awake then and I was getting angry and tired. Actually she's been asleep now for 2.5 hours so if she doesn't get up soon we'll have a repeat of last night. I didn't do much yesterday afternoon either, I just couldn't get in the mood to do some of the bathroom. I tried sorting a drawer but gave up. I did some laundry though, the dry washing is waiting to be folded so I should do that this evening.

The chair wasn't behind the car, but where it was stopped the gate from opening so we had to move it anyway. DP13 moved it so I could reverse both cars out of the way then he and DD17 have put it into the back yard on the "crap pile" DP started months ago. I wish he'd not done it at all, the grass has grown through it because we can't mow or whipper snipper and it just looks terrible. Oh well... the inside of the house is my priority for now, I will deal with outside later, maybe. Better go and wake DD2, I don't want her up until I go to bed... I'd like some 'me' time and I've wasted enough time on here LOL

1 comment:

  1. I just realised I've typed DP13 where it should be DS13... I was in a hurry to finish because DP was getting himself a coffee and I don't want him to know about this blog LOL

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